The Call of Cthulhu & Other Weird Stories Limited edition

Shortlisted for the 2017 BBPD Awards

For three-quarters of a century, the horrors of Howard Phillips Lovecraft have wound their tentacles through American literary and popular culture. This highly anticipated edition of his most influential short fiction, strictly limited to 750 copies, stands as a new landmark in the long history of Lovecraftian illustration and publishing.

Housed in a sea-green and purple duotone solander box, the volume is pitch black down to its very page edges, intended to rival even the forbidden tomes of Lovecraft’s cursed libraries. The binding is embossed with a gold device and astral symbol, akin to the ancient hieroglyphs used to summon his ancient god monsters. Inside, each of acclaimed artist Dan Hillier’s six mesmerising artworks is paired with a unique mandala-esque design. A signed print, created exclusively for the limited edition by the artist, is also included.

In a brilliant new preface, written for The Folio Society, author Alan Moore traces his own – and the literary canon’s – troubled relationship with ‘Providence’s paranoiac prophet’ and unearths a writer ‘more subtly insidious and more magnificently visionary… than the one that you remember or anticipate’.

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About H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island.
He left school without attaining a diploma but showed an early
enthusiasm for the written word. He first appeared in print in 1906
in The Providence Sunday Journal when he wrote a letter to the editor
on astronomy – one of his great passions. In 1923 several of his
short stories were accepted by Weird Tales, the same magazine that
would first publish ‘The Call of Cthulhu’ in 1928. Lovecraft went
on to write further other-worldly and existential horror stories
which would form part of the ‘Cthulhu Mythos’ and secure him a
prominent place among twentieth-century horror writers. He died
in 1937.

About Alan Moore

Alan Moore, born in Northampton in 1953, is a writer, performer,
recording artist, activist and magician. His comic-book work
includes Lost Girls (2009) with Melinda Gebbie, From Hell (1991)
with Eddie Campbell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
(for which he won a Bram Stoker Award in 2000) with Kevin
O’Neill. He has worked with director Mitch Jenkins on the Showpieces
cycle of short films and on forthcoming feature film The
Show, while his novels include Voice of the Fire (1996) and his current
epic Jerusalem (2016). He lives in Northampton with his wife
and collaborator Melinda Gebbie.

About S. T. Joshi

S. T. Joshi is a freelance writer and editor. He has edited Lovecraft’s
collected fiction as well as some of Lovecraft’s essays, letters
and miscellaneous writings. Among his critical and biographical
studies are The Weird Tale (1990), Lord Dunsany: Master of the
Anglo-Irish Imagination (1995) and H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996).

Joshi is also an assembler of anthologies, having compiled Documents
of American Prejudice (1993) and In Her Place: A Documentary
History of Prejudice against Women (2006). He edited Lovecraft’s
The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (2001) and wrote
The Assaults of Chaos: A Novel about H. P. Lovecraft (2013).

About Dan Hillier

Dan Hillier is a London-based artist. His work has been shown
in galleries as diverse as the Louvre in Paris, the Saatchi Gallery
in London and Turin’s Natural History Museum. He has also
collaborated with others, including Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
in London in 2016, UK band Royal Blood for their eponymous
number-one selling album in 2014, and providing the covers for
Neil Gaiman’s Smoke and Mirrors and Anansi Boys in 2008.

"This is a truly stunning production, each detail has been designed and executed with great care. Very proud to own this."

Review by nickbaba on 11th Oct 2017

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"It's a pretty rare occasion that I will be tempted to spend £345 on a single book, but this stunning limited edition is worth every penny. I'm a huge fan of both Lovecraft and the artist Dan Hillier ..." [read more]

"It's a pretty rare occasion that I will be tempted to spend £345 on a single book, but this stunning limited edition is worth every penny. I'm a huge fan of both Lovecraft and the artist Dan Hillier so I simply couldn't pass this one up. It's a gorgeous artifact that has clearly been created with love and attention to the smallest detail. I feel very fortunate to have a copy on my bookshelf. 5 stars in all aspects." [hide full review]